Tracks

Tracks is Australia's leading surfing magazine. For over 40 years Tracks has tapped into the minds of cheeky grommets and grizzled gurus alike, and remains the voice of hardcore surfing in Australia today. Every month it takes you to the most exotic surfing locations, fills you in on what's happening on the pro-circuit as well as at your local beaches. Tracks is the surfer's bible.

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CLASSICAL LEANINGS • How Matt Chojnacki arrives at the past in style

YOUNG BRAVE HART • Seventeen-year-old Ned Hart’s abrupt ascension into the big-wave spotlight.

THE INDO MOTORCYCLE DIARIES: CHAPTER III – THE WILD WEST • Where itinerant Indonesians work in the goldmines, while travelling surfers jostle for hollow treasures.

PAM BURRIDGE: AN IMMORTAL OF AUSTRALIAN SURFING • An edited extract from ‘The Immortals of Australian Surfing’ by Phil Jarratt

CHRISTA FUNK: LET THE LIGHT IN • How a land-locked mainlander chased ocean dreams to the North Shore lineups and beyond.

LAHAINA, NOW & THEN • Former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Lahaina, Maui was levelled by fire in August 2023. The wreckage exposes issues of political corruption and environmental degradation. The surf community’s support for an area anchored in Maui surf culture pulses through it all.

LOVE VS LIKE: KOA SMITH & ‘THE SOURCE’ • How Koa Smith’s social media-inspired meltdown forced him to find perspective

SURFING IN CONFLICT • When a surfer finds himself in a warzone, again.

ON THE PLEASURES OF BEING HAUNTED • The surfing obsessions that follow us through life.

PROTECTING THE WORLD’S BEST WAVES, AND BEYOND • Conservation International’s Surf Conservation program provides a workable framework for looking after your favourite wave, and the community it supports.

UNEARTHED: PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE OF STEPHEN COONEY • Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholemew, Bells Beach, 1974.

WATER COLOURED WAVES: EAGLE HAWK NECK • THE DISTILLED SURFING MEMORIES OF DAVE SPARKES.

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COMPLETION • RYAN CALLINAN’S STEEP, SUNRISE DESCENT INTO A DARK AND MENACING HOLE.